LUKE BUY-WALKER ..STAR WARS SALE
Highly prized collectables to fetch up to €117K at auction
the backseat of the car as they sped from police, later surrendering as Simpson was arrested at his home in Brentwood.
Friends
The car is now owned by three people, including Simpson’s former agent Michael Gilbert who says the group, made up of two of Al’s friends, wouldn’t want anything less than €1.4million ($1.5million).
“Before OJ passed, we had always thought this was going to be the year we were going to sell because it’s the 30th anniversary,” Gilbert told Cllct. “Who knows if we are all going to be around for the 35th or the 40th?”
They told the outlet they’d previously received offers around €705,000 before OJ had passed.
A NECKLACE worn by movie siren Raquel Welch has sold for €183k.
The piece went for 195 times its original estimate of €940 in a Los Angeles auction on Friday.
The turquoise and silver jewellery was donned by the actress in one of her most iconic photos, taken during a 1970 photo shoot with celebrity photographer Terry O’Neill.
Other highlights from Julien’s Auctions’ “Bombshell: The Raquel Welch Collection” sale included a 2018 Mercedes-Benz SL 550 convertible, selling for €98k, and
Welch’s 1975 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical for her role in The Three Musketeers, which realised €24k. Other lots included a bikinistyle costume worn by Welch in the 1967 comedy Bedazzled, which went for €21.6k. A sequined swimsuit inspired by the starspangled flag costume she wore in Myra Breckinridge made €5.5k, while a One Million Years B.C.style suede and faux fur bikini worn by the actress in her stage show and 1974 television special Really, Raquel fetched a price of €12k.
A MASSIVE stash of Star Wars collectable toys could rake in £100,000 (€117,000) when it comes up for auction.
The sale includes a whopping 670 lots of highly prized vintage and modern items including trading cards, figurines, dioramas and statues. Punters will also be able to snap up superb signature edition replica Lightsabers, graphic novels, books and magazines as part of the huge extravaganza.
Among the most sought-after items is a Palitoy Star Wars vintage Han Solo Large Head figure, which is expected to sell for between £10,000 (€11,700) and £12,000 ((€14,060)
A Palitoy Star Wars vintage
Luke Skywalker figure, from The Empire Strikes Back, has also been given a top estimate of
£12,000.
Stage
A near-mint condition Master Replicas Star Wars Mace Windu Lightsaber, signed by Samuel L Jackson who played him, could fetch £800 (€940) to £1,000 (€1,170)
While a Palitoy Star
Wars vintage Return of the Jedi Tri-logo Yak Face figure is set to hit between £1,500 (€1,750) and £2,000 (€2,340).
A Kenner Star Wars vintage Jawa vinyl cape may reach around €1,500.
A spokesperson for Vectis Auctions, which will stage the sale on April 25, said they were stunned by the variety of the items offered by sellers following an open call.
They said: “We asked our customers to send in the best of their collections for auction, and they did not disappoint. One not to be missed.”